Hello!
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 11:22:50PM -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> The system refused to mount it originally, so I ran just plain
> --fix-fixable. It showed nothing wrong at all. By a fluke of terminals,
> I have a copy of this first output
> [http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/~robbat2/reiserfs/hdb1.first].
> However the system still refused to mount the drive, showing this in
> syslog:
> Mar 30 22:14:22 [kernel] read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs
> filesystem on (dev 03:41, block 64, size 1024)
> Mar 30 22:14:22 [kernel] read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs
> filesystem on (dev 03:41, block 8, size 1024)
This is indeed strange.
> The drive still refused to mount.
> I dug in fsck.reiserfs --help, and saw '--scan-whole-partition'. Tried
> --rebuild-tree with that on. It showed a LOT of stuff about StatDatas,
> and completed successfully.
Well, this is likely to destroy data, but still it should be mountable at the point of
completion.
Can you please make a metadata dump for us?
"debugreiserfs -p /dev/hdb1 | bzip2 -9c >metadata.bz2" and make this file
available for us to download.
> I just find that there is something definetly wrong if fsck says the
> partition is fine, but Linux refuses to mount it. Either this is a bug
> in Linux, or the reiserfsprogs. Either way, somebody has a bug :-)
Sure, and we are interested in resolving the problem.
Thank you.
Bye,
Oleg
